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by Phemist 3y ago
Aha. Couldn't help but scratch my own itch. I wonder if DDG has a deal with Google where they get a cut of the ad profit if they are mentioned as a `ref` in the doubleclick ad request. :path: /pagead/viewthroughconversion&#x2
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by Phemist 3y ago
Aha. This makes a lot of sense for Google. But the same websites show up in e.g. DDG (through Bing), as far as I know neither DDG nor Microsoft make a dime from ad-supported websites like Google would, why are these results not nuked simila
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by Phemist 3y ago
I think this could serve a good rule-of-thumb test. Whatever measure is being taken, would it stop (or have stopped) Prince Andrew (and similar)? If not, the measure is at best ineffective and at worst not intended to stop them. We can call
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by Phemist 3y ago
Remember when the :visited modifier on an <a> tag was a thing? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited And third-party tracking websites would load their websites up with a bunch
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by Phemist 3y ago
So, I've heard it said in another topic on `Topics` that a single list of topics, as far as it is an identifier for a specific person, is far less accurate than a tracking cookie (or similar technology). Well, yes, maybe that is the ca
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by Phemist 3y ago
Just to say: the search engine frog has long been boilt and it is amazing what crap people have to put up with when searching for anything. How jarring the experience of seeing TV commercials is after years of Kodi, is how the experience is
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by Phemist 3y ago
Sometimes I have to use somebody else's laptop, for some reason or other I end up searching for something. I think, why are these results so crap? I notice google/bing and quickly kick in my muscle memory built up over the years t
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by Phemist 3y ago
There is a problem with "overlapping" conditions. If multiple conditions in a elif statement would evaluate to true, then the first of these conditions is chosen. For this dictionary approach, the last occurrence of `True` as a ke
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by Phemist 3y ago
Auto-correct issue?
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by Phemist 3y ago
Gathering a huge database of biometrics characteristics sampled from many regions of the world to counter one of the strongest arguments against the mass roll-out of biometric surveillance technology: racial biases inherent in the models du
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by Phemist 3y ago
For the window management, a big shoutout to `magnet` (for snapping windows) and `AltTab` (for sane alt tabbing).. for making the management much less frustrating (although not completely fixed). The "windows should be grouped in terms
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by Phemist 3y ago
Ah yes, fair point. It makes it a bit more subtle, in that the cases where you have to worry about integer overflows on the pointer addition, are cases where you have an array of 2^((64 or 32) - 1) bools... which seems rather silly to do a
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by Phemist 3y ago
Left and right are both usizes, which are 64-bit pointers. You will need work on an array of 2^63 elements before you have to worry about integer overflow issues. This array would not fit in any kind of memory for the foreseeable future :)
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by Phemist 3y ago
The case was really about what is a reasonable temperature to serve coffee at. It was found that McDonald's, as a franchise, mandated coffee to be served at this temperature, generally 20 degrees higher than the temperature of take-awa
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by Phemist 3y ago
Wow what, facebook allows ad targeting based on a user's email?
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by Phemist 3y ago
www.tineye.com is also a pretty good image searcher.
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by Phemist 3y ago
w3schools is a for-profit company that survives on its schooling business. Its incentives are mis-aligned with mine: When I search for information on something web-dev related, I want it to be short & to the point. For w3schools, to max
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by Phemist 3y ago
Not the same, as I would then _only_ search MDN. MDN does not know anything about the battle of waterloo: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=battle+of+water... And Wikipedia does not have any real API documen
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by Phemist 3y ago
To put the focus on the principle of controlling your search engine results, rather than the specific tool (which is Kagi btw)
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by Phemist 3y ago
The exact reason why you need some control over your search engine results. For me, I have blackholed w3schools and boosted MDN in my search engine of choice. It is quite nice to always get the MDN page on a web-dev related query as the top
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by Phemist 3y ago
Oh, duh..
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by Phemist 3y ago
Chess move came out at Rg1+.. romand numerals multiplied are 35 - so VII * V Atomic number of all of these combined: 113 + 23+53+53 + 23=275.. Looks like Im not going to complete it
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by Phemist 3y ago
https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux/tree/main/mesh... The standard linux vpn client clearly has some exitnode capabilities.
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by Phemist 3y ago
Pet peeve: similar thing goes for QR-code redaction. People nearly always block out the middle part of the QR-code. However, actual information, the zigzag pattern, starts from the bottom-right. For many QR-code versions, the middle part en
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by Phemist 3y ago
> tunicates (sea squirts) Could actually be.., perhaps I am miss-remembering :)
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by Phemist 3y ago
> All such groups of sessile filtering animals have greatly simplified bodies and very reduced nervous systems. Yes, as the joke goes, as the larva of an anemone settles into its permanent feeding spot it will consume its own brain, much
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by Phemist 3y ago
Fair.. "you are the product" strikes again
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by Phemist 3y ago
Why can google not store history only locally... there is imo only marginal utility for having this synched to the cloud..
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by Phemist 3y ago
I wrote a 1-page article for this in a small obscure, local-language magazine. The title of which was, translated in English (OMG, I should have also published in English) - Re-factor the factors. I think the 3-factor authentication (3FA) m
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by Phemist 3y ago
Out of an abundance of caution...

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